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Modulation of the clonal burden in patients with lower-risk myelodysplastic neoplasms treated with imetelstat.
Leukemia - 1 Feb 2026
Santini Valeria, Zeidan Amer M, Van Eygen Koen, Fenaux Pierre, Germing Ulrich, Madanat Yazan F, Raza Azra, Savona Michael R, Sekeres Mikkael A, Thépot Sylvain, Raddi Marco G, Boyer Thomas, Sun Libo, Wan Ying, Berry Tymara, Xia Qi, Huang Fei, Dougherty Souria, Navada Shyamala, Feller Faye, Komrokji Rami S, Platzbecker Uwe
Abstract excerpt
Existing treatments for lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes/neoplasms (LR-MDS) focus on symptom relief. Until recently, altering the disease course was rarely considered a therapeutic objective. The first-in-class, direct, competitive telomerase inhibitor, imetelstat, demonstrated significantly higher rates of red blood cell (RBC) transfusion independence (TI) versus placebo in patients with non-del(5q), RBC...
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